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Carl von Linné - the nature´s man of method
“God created - Linné arranged”. Carl von Linné meant that he was the man collected by God, to detect the order of the nature. Those consistent implemented ideas which has done Linné world well-known, was partly the classification of the plant kingdom after the number of stamens in the flowers, partly a simplified Latin/Greek namegiving with family names and names of different kinds. (species names). This is called the binary nomenclature. Translated to human terms the surname first, then the first name. The system is artificial and take no consideration to the plants relationship but uses also today in elementary floras as starting eximination tools.	Foto: Kunskapsprojekt Linné

Classification of the plant kingdom - 24 classes		Suche an:
The final version of Linnés sexualsystem for the plant kingdom was given out 1759 in the book Systema Naturae, 10:th the edition. It is based essential on “the sexual organs”(stamens and pistils) and are divided up in 23 classes of "fanerogamer",blossoming plants (from the Greek's phain -: shows itself, and gamos: marriages) after the number of stamens (“the plants' male sexual organs”), their division and sizes in the flower.n Examples of Linné´s classification system (pdf - requires the program Acrobat Reader)	The 24:th class has occupies the cryptogams - the flowerless plants (“their weddings take place in secret”). Here consults sporeplants: blue-green algae, algae, sponges, lavar, mosses and ferms. As you surely already has noted, takes Linné a distinguished pedagogically grips, when he does comparisons with people at his structure of sexualsystem. To understand the bunch subdivision principles we can study Blomstrens biläger.	Linnés 24 classes Families Lateinsche Namen Gattung Schwedische Namen

	Orders
Within every Class, it exists a different number of Orders, that´s usually determined of the number of pistils (“the plants' female sexual organs”). About around 80th of Orders are irregularlily distributed on the classes. The name on the Orders comes again from class to class, e x v Polygynia with a big number of pistils (poly -: many, and gyn: woman).
	Families
The Orders are divided in just over 400 familys. The majority exercizing still today, but since Linné introduced the system, a part has been divided or fought together. Family name constitute the first word on the plant´s two-pieced names, according Linnés binary nomenclature.
	Kinds
The last stage was to define the Kind and to set an article name on the plant. In Linné´s "Svensk flora" are described about 1300 kinds.